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  • English Word Collocate Definition To set or place; to set; to station.
  • English Word Collocated Definition of Collocate
  • English Word Collocating Definition of Collocate
  • English Word Collocation Definition The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
  • English Word Collocution Definition A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
  • English Word Collocutor Definition One of the speakers in a dialogue.
  • English Word Collodion Definition A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.
  • English Word Collodionize Definition To prepare or treat with collodion.
  • English Word Collodiotype Definition A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
  • English Word Collodium Definition See Collodion.
  • English Word Collogue Definition To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
  • English Word Colloid Definition Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
  • English Word Colloid Definition A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.
  • English Word Colloid Definition A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
  • English Word Colloidal Definition Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
  • English Word Colloidality Definition The state or quality of being colloidal.
  • English Word Collop Definition A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.
  • English Word Collop Definition A part or piece of anything; a portion.
  • English Word Colloped Definition Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
  • English Word Collophore Definition A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.
  • English Word Collophore Definition An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.
  • English Word Colloquial Definition Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
  • English Word Colloquialism Definition A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
  • English Word Colloquialize Definition To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
  • English Word Colloquies Definition of Colloquy
  • English Word Colloquist Definition A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.
  • English Word Colloquy Definition Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
  • English Word Colloquy Definition In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
  • English Word Collow Definition Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.
  • English Word Colluctancy Definition A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.